Help your teachers improve student achievement with six booklets brimming with proven classroom ideas!

Setting High Expectations

Research proves that student achievement is strongly influenced by teacher expectations.This booklet includes practical, research-based ideas to help teachers set and communicate high expectations in ways that will challenge and inspire all students to do their best work. Specific sections aimed at improving academic success include: helping low-scoring students, closing the gender gap, understanding diversity, supporting struggling students, motivating underachieving students, setting expectations for behavior, creating a learning contract—and more. Stock #600B.

Managing Your Classroom

The mechanics of running a classroom can have a big impact on student achievement. Research says that classroom management is about creating an environment where all students are learning. Managing Your Classroom has compiled outstanding proven-to-work ideas teachers can use to organize any classroom so that effective instruction can take place. Sections cover: small-group seating arrangements, the importance of routines, handling misbehavior, techniques for increasing student attention, engaging all students—and more. Stock #601B.

Motivating Students

Motivating students and instilling the desire to achieve is the number one concern of education leaders, according to a recent scientific survey of education leaders. Research shows that students can be the most able in their class, but if they are not motivated to work hard, study, listen, behave, participate or even make an effort, they will not succeed. Motivating Students is based on sound research and gives teachers proven ideas to help students motivate themselves and regulate their own learning. Other topics include: using encouragement, praise and positive feedback, recognizing reluctant learners, and improving lessons and class discussions to keep learning interesting for all students. Stock #602B.

Helping Children At Risk

Unprecedented numbers of children in school today are at-risk. This booklet addresses in practical terms what teachers can do to help at-risk children learn. It reviews the factors frequently associated with a child being at-risk, suggests ways to provide a caring classroom structure and positive discipline, details ways to motivate children and help them set and achieve goals, lists ways to address literacy problems, build self-esteem, recognize signs of drug and child abuse, help homeless students…and more. Filled with research, insights and suggestions for modifying and adapting lessons to meet the needs of all students, every teacher will find useful ideas in this booklet.
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Teaching Responsibilty

Regardless of the subject matter being taught, students need to learn responsibility. Responsible students know that learning is their job. They take responsibility for their actions and decisions, for their belongings and their schoolwork. They are respectful, self-motivated and self-directed. This essential booklet includes specific, proven ideas to help build student responsibility for their learning and behavior—ways to build responsibility through classroom activities, goal-setting, time management and organization skills, homework, learning strategies, responsible habits and a system for making responsible choices. Stock #604B.

Getting Ready for Tests

Increasingly, teachers and schools are being judged not on the broad knowledge they teach students but on student mastery of specific topics measured by standardized tests. The NCLB Act has increased the pressure, and while teachers must still deal with the whole child, their performance ratings (and those of their school) are commonly based on narrowly-stated standards for just a few key subjects. Getting Ready for Tests provides research-based, motivational ideas teachers can use to help students prepare for high-stakes tests, including: techniques for decoding multiple choice questions, a step-by-step test preparation checklist, making the best use of limited time, essay strategies, predicting likely test questions, approaches for conquering test-taking anxiety, and even ways to get parents involved! Stock #605B.